- Source: Deaths in October 1986
The following is a list of notable deaths in October 1986.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
October 1986
= 1
=Archie League, 79, American air traffic controller.
Seán Moore, 73, Irish politician, member of Dáil Éireann, Lord Mayor of Dublin.
Dražen Ričl, 24, Yugoslavian rock musician (Crvena jabuka) and comedian, traffic collision.
= 2
=F. Wayne Valley, 72, American businessman and football executive, owner of Oakland Raiders, cancer.
= 3
=Vince DiMaggio, 74, American Major League baseballer (Pittsburgh Pirates), brother of Joe DiMaggio, colon cancer.
Sergey Preminin, 20, Soviet navy sailor, averted meltdown in nuclear submarine K-219, hyperthermia.
Han Xianchu, 73, Chinese general in the People's Liberation Army.
= 4
=Raymond E. Baldwin, 93, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate and Governor of Connecticut.
Mike Butterworth, 62, British comic book writer (The Trigan Empire), heart attack.
Sarala Devi, 82, Indian politician and social activist, member of Odisha Legislative Assembly.
Arno von Lenski, 93, Nazi German Wehrmacht general and politician.
Desiderius Orban, 101, Hungarian and Australian painter, kidney disease.
= 5
=Mike Burgmann, 39, Australian racing driver, racing crash.
Timothy Creasey, 63, British army general.
Abraham Feinberg, 87, American rabbi, activist and singer, cancer.
Rudolf Flesch, 75, Austrian-born American readability expert and author (Why Johnny Can't Read).
Collette Lyons, 78, American actress, wife of George Randolph Hearst.
Mairin Mitchell, 91, British and Irish writer and journalist.
Hal B. Wallis, 87, American film producer (Casablanca, True Grit, The Adventures of Robin Hood), diabetes.
James H. Wilkinson, 67, English mathematician (Wilkinson matrix, Wilkinson's polynomial), heart attack.
= 6
=Marie-Hélène Arnaud, 52, French model and actress, the "face of Chanel".
Yuri Babayev, 58, Soviet physicist, co-designers of the Tsar Bomba.
Gokulbhai Bhatt, 88, Indian politician and social worker, Chief Minister of Sirohi State.
Guy Prendergast, 81, British army officer and explorer.
David Rubinoff, 89, Russian-born American violinist.
Robert Six, 79, American businessman, CEO of Continental Airlines.
Wallace Wade, 94, American football player and sports coach.
= 7
=Cheryl Crawford, 84, American theatre producer and director (Group Theatre).
Arthur Galsworthy, 70, British diplomat, High Commissioner to New Zealand, ambassador to the Republic of Ireland.
Yōjirō Ishizaka, 86, Japanese novelist and short story writer.
Iwan Iwanoff, 67, Bulgarian and Australian architect, pneumonia.
Liu Bocheng, 93, Chinese general in the People's Liberation Army.
Jerzy Łojek, 54, Polish historian.
J. G. Phillips, 75, Australian economist, Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, suicide.
Paul Tournier, 88, Swiss physician and pastoral counselor, cancer.
= 8
=Nels Anderson, 97, American sociologist and author (The Hobo).
Walter Burkemo, 67, American golfer, PGA Championship winner.
Shadi Abdel Salam, 56, Egyptian film director and screenwriter (The Night of Counting the Years).
Max Surkont, 64, American Major League baseballer (Boston/Milwaukee Braves).
= 9
=Harald Reinl, 78, Austrian film director (Chariots of the Gods), murdered.
Jo-Jo White, 77, American Major League baseballer (Detroit Tigers).
= 10
=Gerold Braunmühl, 51, West German diplomat, assassinated.
Mary Cholmondeley, 80, British socialite and heiress.
Antonio di Benedetto, 63, Argentinian novelist (Zama).
Rusty Lane, 87, American actor and college professor (Crime with Father).
Marie Neurath, 88, German and English designer and illustrator of children's books, co-developer of Isotype.
Michael Player, 25–26, American serial killer (Skid Row Slayer), suicide.
Priaulx Rainier, 83, South African–born British composer.
Russ Van Atta, 80, American Major League baseballer (St. Louis Browns).
Gleb Wataghin, 86, Ukrainian-Italian physicist.
= 11
=Gregorio Álvarez, 96, Argentinian historian and physician.
Norm Cash, 52, American Major League baseballer (Detroit Tigers), drowned.
John Crockett, 68, British television and stage director.
Georges Dumézil, 88, French linguist, stroke.
Barker Fairley, 99, British-born Canadian painter and literary scholar.
David Hand, 86, American animator (Walt Disney Productions), stroke.
Boris Leven, 78, Russian-born American production designer and Academy Award winner (West Side Story).
Ed McNamara, 65, Canadian actor (For Gentlemen Only, Bayo).
Al Ullman, 72, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, prostate cancer.
= 12
=John J. Herrera, 76, American attorney and activist, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens.
= 13
=Maidie Andrews, 93, English actress.
Abram Hill, 76, American playwright (On Strivers Row), co-founded American Negro Theatre, emphysema.
Fred K. Mahaffey, 52, American army general, commander in chief U.S. Readiness Command, cancer.
Hermann von Siemens, 101, German industrialist, chairman of Siemens.
= 14
=Milovan Ćirić, 68, Yugoslavian footballer and manager (Red Star Belgrade).
Yvette Dugay, 54, American actress (Cattle Queen of Montana).
Spec O'Donnell, 75, American actor.
Takanori Ogisu, 84, Japanese-born French painter.
Barry Salvage, 39, English footballer (Brentford, Millwall), heart attack.
Keenan Wynn, 70, American actor (The Hucksters), pancreatic cancer.
Takahiko Yamanouchi, 84, Japanese theoretical physicist (quantum mechanics).
= 15
=Alex Josey, 76, British-Singaporean journalist, known for biography of Lee Kuan Yew, Parkinson's disease.
Rani Padmini, 23–24, Indian actress (Parankimala, Kilikkonjal), murdered.
Jacqueline Roque, 59, French ife of Pablo Picasso, suicide.
Marcus Samuel, 77, British businessman and hereditary peer, director of Lloyds Bank.
Jerry Smith, 43, American NFL footballer (Washington Redskins), AIDS.
= 16
=Manolo Álvarez Mera, 62, Cuban-born tenor.
Arthur Grumiaux, 65, Belgian violin virtuoso, stroke.
Yukihiko Haida, 77, American composer and ukulele player.
Manas Mukherjee, 43, Indian composer.
Sandro Puppo, 68, Italian footballer and manager (Venezia, Italy), Olympic gold medalist.
Ted Sagar, 76, English international footballer (Everton, England).
Princess Yolanda of Savoy, 85, Italian royal, daughter of Victor Emmanuel III, heart failure.
= 17
=Boris Arkadyev, 87, Soviet footballer and coach (Soviet Union).
Hamish Fraser, 73, Scottish journalist and political activist, Red Terror participant.
Stan Judkins, 79, Australian rules footballer (Richmond).
Ron Kass, 51, American film producer (Naked Yoga), cancer.
Leah Rhodes, 84, American costume designer (Adventures of Don Juan).
= 18
=Niat Qabool Hayat Kakakhel, 81, Pakistani politician.
Clyde S. Kilby, 84, American writer, founded Marion E. Wade Center.
Wilhelm Orlik-Rückemann, 92, Polish army general.
= 19
=Moses Asch, 80, Polish-born American recording engineer and executive, founder of Folkways Records.
Aquino de Bragança, 62, Indian-born Mozambican journalist and diplomat.
Karlo Bulić, 76, Yugoslavian actor (Naše malo misto).
Dele Giwa, 39, Nigerian journalist, founder of Newswatch magazine, assassinated.
Leon Henderson, 91, American economist, administrator of the Office of Price Administration.
Stanley Lebowsky, 59, American composer and conductor (Chicago, Jesus Christ Superstar).
Oldřich Lipský, 62, Czechoslovakian film director and screenwriter.
Samora Machel, 53, Mozambican politician, president of Mozambique, plane crash.
Simon Mahon, 72, British politician, Member of Parliament.
H. Freeman Matthews, 87, American diplomat, ambassador to Austria, The Netherlands and Sweden.
Shafeek Nader, 60, co-founder of Northwestern Connecticut Community College, brother of Ralph Nader, heart failure.
Kottarakkara Sreedharan Nair, 64, Indian Malayalam actor (Chemmeen).
George Pipgras, 86, American Major League baseballer (New York Yankees) and umpire.
Arseny Sokolov, 76, Soviet theoretical physicist (synchrotron radiation).
May Wilson, 80–81, American artist, pneumonia.
= 20
=Michael Joe Costello, 82, Irish military leader (Irish War of Independence).
Tommy Walker, 63, American event director, composer of "Charge!", complications of heart surgery.
= 21
=Theodor Busse, 88, Nazi German army General of the Infantry).
Pelagio Cruz, 74, Filipino military general, chief of staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
Gisela Fackeldey, 65, German actress.
Gadabout Gaddis, 90, American fisherman and television presenter (The Flying Fisherman).
Fritz Hochwälder, 75, Austrian playwright.
T. Krishna, 36, Indian Telugu film director and screenwriter (Pratighatana, Repati Pourulu).
Lionel Murphy, 64, Australian politician and judge, Attorney-General of Australia, justice of the High Court of Australia, cancer.
Diwakarla Venkatavadhani, 75, Indian Telugu writer.
= 22
=Jane Dornacker, 39, American rock musician, comedian and traffic reporter (Leila and the Snakes), helicopter crash.
Ivor Francis, 67, Canadian-American actor (Room 222).
Bhagwanti Navani, 46, Indian Sindhi singer and actress.
Albert Szent-Györgyi, 93, Hungarian biochemist and politician (Vitamin C), Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine).
Bernard Joseph Topel, 83, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Spokane.
Ye Jianying, 89, Chinese politician and army general.
= 23
=Paul Brophy, 49, American firefighter, condition sparked right to die debate, dehydration.
Esquerita, 48–51, American singer, songwriter and pianist, AIDS.
Ronald Long, 75, English-American actor (Love of Life), heart faailure.
Conrad O'Brien-ffrench, 92, British intelligence officer (MI6) and mountaineer.
= 24
=Michael Brennan, 90, Irish general, Chief of Staff of the Irish Defence Forces.
Johnny Dyani, 40, South African jazz double bassist, vocalist and pianist (The Blue Notes), liver ailment.
Joseph B. Johnson, 93, Swedish-born American politician, Governor of Vermont.
= 25
=Carroll A. Edson, 94, American scouting leader, co-founded Order of the Arrow.
Guillermo Eizaguirre, 77, Spanish international footballer (Sevilla, Spain).
Ricardo Sanz García, 87, Spanish militant, leader of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo.
Howard S. McDonald, 92, American academic administrator, president of the California State University.
Tadao Tannaka, 77, Japanese mathematician (Tannaka–Krein duality).
Forrest Tucker, 67, American actor (F Troop), lung cancer.
= 26
=Jackson Scholz, 89, American sprinter and Olympic gold medalist.
Marcel Simon, 79, French religious historian (Verus Israel).
= 27
=Sherman Adams, 87, American politician, Governor of New Hampshire, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
Alan Branscombe, 50, English jazz pianist and alto saxophonist.
= 28
=Robert Arthur, 76, American film producer and screenwriter (Francis the Talking Mule).
John Braine, 64, English novelist (Room at the Top), gastric haemorrhage.
Marga Klompé, 74, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives.
Ian Marter, 42, English actor (Doctor Who) and writer, heart attack.
Eddie Waring, 76, British rugby league commentator, dementia.
= 29
=Mimis Fotopoulos, 73, Greek actor and writer, heart attack.
Marcel Gascoin, 79, French furniture designer.
Abel Meeropol, 83, American songwriter and poet ("Strange Fruit").
Aaron Resnick, 71, American architect, co-founder of Usonia Historic District, heart attack.
Ronald Thom, 63, Canadian architect (Massey College).
= 30
=Andrzej Markowski, 62, Polish composer and conductor, founder of Wratislavia Cantans festival.
Tandiono Manu, 73, Indonesian politician, Minister of Agriculture.
Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt, 85, German politician, Federal Minister of Health.
= 31
=Bob Hardisty, 64, English footballer (Great Britain Olympic football team).
Marcella Martin, 70, American actress (Gone with the Wind).
Robert S. Mulliken, 90, American physicist and chemist (molecular orbital theory), Nobel laureate (Chemistry), heart failure.
Bruno Snell, 90, German classical philologist (Die Entdeckung des Geistes).
Gregorio F. Zaide, 79, Filipino historian, president of the Philippine Historical Association.
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